Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1887-07-09
GENERAL NEWS.

| Gov. Hill has signed the bill extending
! local option throughout New York
| state.
| Norman B. Ream of Chicago is said to
| have made big money out of the crash in
| wheat.
| Chet Smith, procurer for vile dens at
Hurley, Wisconsin, was given year at
Chicago.
| The June rise Of the Missouri at Pierre
was ten feet above low water mark-the
highest ever known.
Conrad Doll, at North Industry, Ohio,
killed his wife and stepson, Ms the re
suit of family quarrel.
At the next session OF the Iowa leg isla-
ture, All attempt will be made to stop the
druggists selling liquor.
At Cleveland. Benjamin $. Wheeler,
SO years old, rich and peculiar, was ac-
quilted of wife murder
The Dakota Knights of Pythias oppose
the admission 10 the order OF Sandwich
Islanders or saloon keepers.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland will
be the guests of Erastus Corning of Alba
ny, at Bar Harbor III August.
Commissioner Sparks has recommend
ed that the government defend the rights
of settlers abused by the railroads.
lamar has reversed Sparks decision
and allowed Herman Freese to settle on
the former Omaha Indian reservation.
ATTORNEY David It. Wood Of Sioux City,
saws that Arensdorff is generally believed
to be guilty Of the Haddock murder.
President Cleveland has cordially ac
cepted the dedication to him of the eulo-
gy on Henry Ward Beecher by DR.. Par
ker of London.
Senator Stanford has paid 81, 100000 for
the San Joaquin ranch near Los Angeles.
1t contains 1OS, 900 acres of land and runs
along the coast
Vim. Rean, an experienced Fargo farm
er, says there will he but half a crop Of
wheat and one-fourth crop of hay in the
Red River valley.
Mrs. VIM. p Heator and her sister
horSewhipped Sidney Corhett, aJackson,
Michigan, newspaper reporter for slander.
He is seriously hurt,
Yankton county. Dakota, will vote on
local option soon. The commissioners
have increased the license to $500 and in
the city there is an additional $500.
Ex xCongressman Campbell, Democrat,
of Ohio does not desire to run for COVER
nor. He says this is not democratic
year, referring to the flag episode.
A new Oddfellow temple is to be built
in Rapid City, Dakota, $4,000 site having
Just been purchased. Work on the new
Masonic temple commences next week.
Private Secretary Lamont made an
agreement with Collector Magone of
New York by which all Republican clerks
remaining in the custom house are to be
removed.
The action of the American authorities
at Niagara Falls in preventing laborers
residing ia Gapana from working in the
United States has created displeasnre in
Canadian official circles,
Miss Agnata Ramsey, daughter OF a
Scotch baronet, took first honors in a
classical course at Girton College, Cam
bridge, Eng. She was the only student OF
either sex to pass the first division.
The Increase OF business on the great
lakes is phenominal. During the first Is
days of the month 100 vessels passed
through the $500" canal, an average of 5s
day The total tonnage was 432, ,597. June
Ia, "a vessels passed,
The number of claims pending in the
pension office June 18 was 29S. .184; cost
of medical examinations during the week,
g42,243 The available balance of APP
prepriatjons for the fiscal year ending
June 30 Is 49,4S3, ,O49.
The board of visitors of Gouveneur
hospital, New York, report that there is
no foundation for the charges Of drunk
enness, debauchery and the nse Of roliti-
cal influence in the management as
charged by Brick Pomeroy.
All we know OF the Sand Conlee coal
about which mild rumpus is now being
kicked up, is that Messrs. Pemponelly and
Eldridge, of the government survey has
pronounced it as existing in large quanti-
ties and of good quality.-Phfltpsbnrg